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I had a Primus 1lb canister sputter out when it was 2/3rds full -- sitting on my kitchen table! This blew my mind -- after all the only time I would carry a huge 1lb canister is if I was very isolated or in very cold conditions or both! I would have been screwed. The canister came from MEC and it had a spot of rust on the threads, making me think it was old.
I chalked it up to a valve problem. I could hear lots of liquid inside but I never broke it open to see what was going on for obvious reasons.
This question makes me wonder even more why Andrew Skurka didn't carry a canister stove on his "ultralight in the icebox" trip. Canisters are lighter and ostensibly *less* prone to failure than a complicated pump system. What gives?
How many other people here have had canisters fail with liquid left in them either a) in warm conditions, or b) inverted in cold condtions?
Brian
Edited by bjamesd on 02/04/2007 17:35:31 MST.
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